I was about to say the smell is going to be worse than the clean up
I was about to say the smell is going to be worse than the clean up
So has the wife told you yet how right she was not to not let you use her VW?
In reply to dean1484 :
She helped me clean out the car for about 3 hours once I got the carpet out. She's a keeper. She did say if I would have taken the Touareg and that happened I'd be buying another just like it. If I weren't handy with a wrench and this happened to a normal person, I'm not sure what they would do. I can forsee a repair/cleaning bill that would run into the thousands.
Trying to find an upside, at least it wasn't gear oil!
I'm feeling sick from the smell that I'm not really smelling. Weird.
Sucks man, just sucks.
On the other hand, it makes a great story!
mfennell said:Trying to find an upside, at least it wasn't gear oil!
I had to put a carpet in a Ford Transit after the owner tried to transport a 5-gallon pail of gear lube without a lid on it. Yeah, I'm not sure how he thought that was going to work.
In reply to mfennell :
No it was gear oil mixed with diesel oil.....
I called around a few JY's today and no one has any corvettes. Apparently GM doesn't want to sell it new either. Ended up getting both sides and the back "riser" panel on eBay for ~$225. Not too bad considering. It would have been nice to not have to wait.
Dang. I think I would have just called my insurance company. :(
When something E36 M3ty happens I always remember what my dad told me years ago. On our way home from the lake one evening pulling the boat a deer runs out and I mash it. Everything is fubar from the grill, around the corner to the drivers door. When I am complaining to my dad he said it could have been worse, the boat could have come off the trailer into the back of your truck.
No accident, you are fine, the car is fine. You have a little oil to clean up.
dang man. that sucks like crazy. my dad ruined an old jeep I had by doing similar with a gallon of milk, but then again that was a $300 jeep. and last year my wife and I spilled about 1/2 gallon of gasoline in the back of our minivan. turns out, gasoline is pretty effective at softening honda sound deadening.
You'll get it cleaned up.
This is why I so dread taking my oil in, which is why I put it off, which is why I have so much oil that needs to go in, which is why I dread taking it in...
I, too, expected a hole in the block.
and I also am not sure which is worse at this point.
i will now be utilizing amazing extra doses of caution the next time I undertake the same task.
In the 90's, my mom had a thanksgiving turkey in the back of her station wagon. Somehow the raw turkey juices spilled everywhere. The smells that blossomed from the hatch for the next probably 5 years were plentiful and evolved over time but always were nauseating.
Ouch. The next time I think I can get along without my big old truck, I hope I recall your misfortune. I wish you a successful and painless cleanup.
So do you dump like 10 bags of cat litter in the car?
I think I would have preferred a hole in the block.
Oil made it up to about the front bolts of the seats. I removed both sides of carpets and the back piece that goes behind the seats. I was able to get it mostly off the seats, but the rails and mechanisms of the seat will likely always have some oil in there. I tried my best to wipe it down. Likely there is some in the nooks and crannies of the seat cover/foam as well. The carpets are trashed. After 2 hours of pressure washing I hung them up to dry and they are now leaking what looks like straight oil onto the ground of my garage. Of course it's raining today.
The center console is mostly hard plastic so I blasted that a few times. I think it will be fine. Once the carpets were out I used my shopvac to suck it out of crevices. Dawn/simple green everything else. Hopefully it will be ok. My wife ran the extractor on the "trunk" portion where there was a little, but she seems to think she got it mostly.
The biggest thing I'm worried about is the smell.
mfennell said:Trying to find an upside, at least it wasn't gear oil!
*at least it wasn't used supercharger oil
If you have comprehensive insurance coverage, it would probably apply to this.
Years ago I bought these at a surplus supply store. Screw on lid and it holds 5 gallons of oil. I've knocked them over in the truck without incident. They originally held food grade flavoring (koolaide). You might want to check with your local ice cream store or other since they probably throw them out.
That sucks almost as bad as replacing power steering components on a C6. While you've got the interior out, might as well throw a cage in it.
DirtyBird222 said:That sucks almost as bad as replacing power steering components on a C6. While you've got the interior out, might as well throw a cage in it.
That's exactly what I was going to say- the only logical thing to do is strip the interior completely and cage it. #racecar
on a personal note: I remember when my old saab NG900 had a coolant leak. I fixed the hose and topped off the coolant and put the bottle behind the driver's seat. It then proceeded to leak all over the floor of the car. What a mess that was to clean up, and it did not even have the tenacity of used motoroil.
Anything that mucks up a nice car sucks, and oil isn't the easiest thing to clean up and not have a bad smell for who knows how long.
We (by which I really mean my wife) left a bottle of milk that had fallen over, in a ferry parking lot in the sun for a weekend and the smell was so strong that she screamed and physically recoiled from it when she opened the door. She eventually sold it to an old guy (who apparently had no sense of smell - can you imagine when he got home to his wife and said "Come and see the deal I got on this car..."
Only one I've heard that was probably worse was a car with a tipped gallon of fish fertilizer in it for a few days.
Not quite as bad, but I had a 5 gallon bucket that had a screw top for pouring out the contents. No incidents getting it to the oil drop off. However when I was pouring it into the collection container, the big lid decided to pop off. I caught it as it was happening, but not without dumping a gallon of oil on top of the collection bin and some on myself. I walked to the counter and offered to buy a bag of litter and paper towels to clean up the mess. They were nice enough to say don't worry about it. I wonder how many times they have to deal with something like that. I felt pretty bad for the guy and offered multiple times to help.
Brake cleaner is a very effective oil removing thing too, and its pretty safe for most fabrics. I keep a can at home for spot cleaning.
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